Palm Springs preview
What to expect from Palm Springs Modernism Week 2024 including events, exhibitions and highlights from the expansive programme.
Reside magazine (from Sotheby’s International Realty)
Melbourne sanctuary
Architect Oliver du Puy renovates a historic Victorian terrace house, originally from 1889, to create a tranquil, modern family home.
Icon magazine
Brockwell Greenhouses
Social and environmental ecosystems co-exist at a community garden in London’s Brockwell Park which has expanded its activities with a new building designed by Feilden Fowles.
The Architectural Review
Moon House
An interview with Adam Weismann, founder of Clayworks, in Cornwall about architecture, art and life
The World of Interiors
Bernat Klein Studio
Few things say 1960s and 70s quite like Bernat Klein’s richly coloured fabrics for both catwalk and home. Except, perhaps, the landmark Peter Womersley-designed studio in the Scottish Borders where many of them were born.
Casa Akúun, Merida
A house named after the tree that pierces through its plan. The Akúun tree – alamo in Spanish, poplar in English – defies the heaviness of concrete with its comparably delicate branches. This is symbolic of the whole concept of this house by Arkham Projects, which was designed around the abundant vegetation of its site.
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An interview with Mae-ling Lokko
An interview with pioneering agro-waste designer Mae-ling Lokko for the Summer 2021 issue of Icon magazine. Exploring Lokko’s process, research and projects using materials such as coconut husk, hemp fibres, and mycelium.Icon magazine
Architecture icon: CICES Dakar
A modernist trade fairground in Senegal’s capital built in 1974 signalled the country’s post-colonial ambitions. Now a conservation project is celebrating its local and national importance.
The Sarasota School
Exploring the mid-century Florida architecture movement that fused experimental modernist with climate-responsive design.
Santuario del Señor de Tula, Jojutla
In Jojutla, a municipality in central Mexico, an open-air chapel named Santuario del Señor de Tula has been redesigned by Dellekamp/Schleich and Agenda as part of an urban reconstruction plan initiated following the earthquake in September 2017 that devastated the region.
Welcome to Park Imperial South
In Palm Springs, an exclusive modernist-design-loving community throws open its gates for a 1960s-themed celebration in honour of Modernism Week. Designed by architect Barry Berkus, the development is held in high esteem by desert modern aficionados.
The World Around report
Taking place online at the Guggenheim in New York, the day-long summit The World Around brought together a diverse number of practitioners to tell global stories about the impact of architectural culture today.
Damn magazine
A 1970s Antwerp home tour
Sol Calero, Zora Mann and Shailesh BR at Villa Arson
At the Villa Arson, an art centre, art school, library and artists’ residence in Nice, three solo exhibitions draw from the four-month artist residencies of Sol Calero, Zora Mann and Shailesh BR.
Studio International
Ruth Asawa at David Zwirner gallery London
Born from organic forms, inspired by mathematics, and woven methodically like baskets, a series of delicate wire sculptures by Ruth Asawa is hanging from the ceiling at the David Zwirner Gallery in London. It is surprising that the Black Mountain College-educated artist, who studied under Buckminster Fuller and Josef Albers, and has been featured in major museum shows across the US, is only now the focus of a first UK solo show.
Motions of This Kind
Three curators and 11 artists retell the colonial history of the Philippines through subjective and personal frames – and exhibition review of Motions of This Kind: Propositions and Problems of Belatedness, at the Brunei Gallery at the School of Oriental and African Studies.
Bauhaus-inspired university campus in Nigeria
A new documentary commissioned for the Bauhaus centenary explores the architecture of the Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria
The architecture of Hassan Fathy